Full Metallic Jacket and Kubrick: The final word anti-war movies
“Kubrick offers with the connection between the human demise intuition and the machines we created to wreak havoc, destruction, and do the killing for us. He does so higher than another filmmaker, too,” insists Kuznick. “He is aware of there’s something deeply irrational and absurd about human beings who create machines that may solely finish life on the planet.”
Such a adverse viewpoint of the world most likely helps to explains why, although he was essentially the most celebrated director of his era, Kubrick was by no means rewarded with an Academy Award for his apparent skills. “He did not play the publicity recreation,” says Abrams. “In his early years, positive, he wished to win an Oscar. However by the mid 60s, he’d slowed down. He makes as many movies between 1953 and 1964 as he does afterwards as a result of he was extra excited about ensuring his movies delivered one thing new, and that he did not repeat himself.”
Which most likely explains why Kubrick stored on coming again to the warfare style. It was so wealthy in motion, drama, emotion, and themes of grief, ego, sacrifice, and guilt, that Kubrick may go from searing the politics of warfare in Paths of Glory, to satirising the madness of nuclear bombs in Dr. Strangelove, earlier than lastly showcasing the human value of battle in Full Metallic Jacket, with out coming near duplication. All of which he achieved whereas proving that he was the grasp of each transfixing and enlightening his viewers on the identical time.
So, whereas it could be a disgrace that Kubrick solely made 13 movies, maybe we must always simply be thankful for those he gave us.
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